ANS:- (A) 85- The proposed Renuka Dam project is being denied approval on the ground that it involves cutting down of a large number of trees. This project is associated with (A) Uttarakhand (B) Himachal Pradesh (C) Arunachal Pradesh (D) Andhra Pradesh

ANS:- (C) 87 – Which of the following books has not been written by Mario Vargas Llosa who received Nobel Prize in Literature 2010? (A) The Time of the Hero (B) The Green House (C) Conversation in the Cathedral (D) Wolf Hall ANS:- (D) 88 – Name the former Argentine President and the country’s most powerful politician who died recently. (A) Nestor Kirchner (B) Criistina Fernandez (C) Kanayo Nwanze (D) Robert Zeigler

ANS:- (D) 90 – Who among the following has been elected as the first woman President of Brazil? (A) Dilma Rousseff (B) Maria das Gracas Foster (C) Marta Suplicy (D) Eve Morales ANS:- (A) 91 – Name the Canada-based author who has lashed out at the Shiv Sena for its “sorry spectacle of book-burning and book-banning”, leading to the withdrawal of his novel Such A Long Journey from Mumbai University’s syllabus. (A) Rohinton Mistry (B) Salman Rushdie (C) Amitav Ghosh (D) Robin Sharma

ANS:- (A) 92 – A joint exercise named “Indradhanush” by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the _______ was held at the Kalaikunda Air Force station in West Bengal. (A) US (B) UK (C) France (D) Germany

ANS:- (B) 93 – Recently 2G controversy was in news. G stands for (A) General (B) Generation (C) Government (D) Gilt-Edged ANS:- (B) 14 – Name the country in which more than 200 people died due to volcano eruption from the Mount Meraki, which means “Mountain of Fire”. (A) Indonesia (B) Malaysia (C) Vietnam (D) Laos ANS:- (A) 95 – Adarsh scam is associated with (A) Housing (B) Defence purchase (C) Duty drawback (D) Allotment of Land

ANS:- (D) 97 – Who has become the first Indian American woman to hold gubernatorial post in the US? (A) Nikki Haley (B) Bobby Jindal (C) Kamala Harris (D) Reshma Saujani

ANS:- (A) 98 – Name the Pakistan wicket-keeper who abandoned the team and flew to London and who announced his retirement from international cricket after revealing that he had received death threat. (A) Tasleem Arif (B) Zulqarnain Haider (C)Shoeb Akmal (D) Danish Kaneria

ANS:- (B) 99 – Guangzhou is the second Chinese city to host the Asian Games after Beijing in (A) 1986 (B) 1990 (C) 1994 (D) 1998

ANS:- (D) 103 – Suggesting “gross injustice” in his four-month suspension from the British House of Lords, Lord Swraj Paul has resigned as (A) Speaker of the House (B) Deputy Speaker of the House (C) Leader of the Opposition (D)Member of the House ANS:- (B) 104 – Karen rebels are fighting in the country which has been ruled by the military near-continuously since 196(B) Identify the country. (A) N Korea (B) Myanmar (C) Vietnam (D) Brunei

ANS:- (B) 105 – Name the person who has been secretary-general of Interpol for the past 10 years, and who has been reelected to the post for a third five-year term at the global police agency’s general assembly in Doha. (A) Ronald Noble (B) Boon Hui Khoo (C) James R Clapper (D) Kofi Annan

ANS:- (A) 106 – Justice Soumitra Sen of the Calcutta High Court is the second judge in the country’s history to face removal proceeding in the Parliament. Who was the first? (A) Justice V Ramaswami (B) Justice Subhash Bhattacharya (C) Justice Subhash Kashyap (D) Justice E Ahmadi

ANS:- (A) 107 – The government has approved amendments to the Enemy Property Act, 1968, to ensure that legal heirs can inherit properties of relatives who migrated to (A) Pakistan in 1947 (B) Bangladesh in 1971 (C) Myanmar in 1947 (D) Sri Lanka in 1947

ANS:- (A) 109 – Name the Indonesian President who will be the chief guest at next year’s Republic Day parade in Delhi. (A) Megawati Sukarnoputri (B) Abdurrahman Wahid (C) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (D) Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

ANS:- (C) 110 – Name the veteran human rights activist of Pakistan who has won a keenly-contested election for president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, becoming the first woman to hold this office. (A) Hina Jilani (B) Asma Jehangir (C) Sherry Rahman (D) Maliha Lodi

ANS:- (C) 112 – Who among the following has not been appointed on the panel of interlocutors on Kashmir? A. Dileep Padgaonkar B. Irfan Habib C. Radha Kumar D. Vinod Dua E. MM Ansari (A) Only B (B) Only A & B (C) Only B & D (D) Only D & E

ANS:- (C) 113 – The President of US Barack Obama arrived in India by (A) US Air Force Plane (B) Air Force One (C) Delta Force (D) Caravan of Hope

ANS:- (B) 114 – Name the New Zealand public television host who mocked Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s name and invited racism charge and resigned as a consequence (A) Paul Henry (B) Robert Edwards (C) Carlos Barrios (D) Li Rui

ANS:- (A) 115 – Name the person who has been named as the most powerful person in the world by Forbes. (A) Hu Jintao (B) Barack Obama (C) King Abdullah (D) Sonia Gandhi

ANS:- (A) 116 – The strike infantry units from India and Russia concluded joint military exercises whose thrust was terror attacks. The 10-day exercise was held in the Kumaon Hills near Ranikhet in Uttarakhand The exercise was named (A) Vajra (B) Rainbow (C) Indra (D) Malabar

ANS:- (C) 117 – Name the former Inspector General of Police in Kerala who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Special Court in the case relating to the killing of Naxalite leader a Varghese in a fake encounter. (A) K Lakshmana (B) Girish Kumar (C) L Ganeshan (D) DG Vanjara

ANS:- (A) 120 – Who has ended the year as World No. 1 female lawn tennis player despite losing to Kim Clijsters in the final of the WTA Championships in Doha on Oct 30? (A) Vera Zvonarevo (B) Serena Williams (C) Venus Williams (D) Caroline Wozniacki

ANS:- (A) 122- The Planning Commission rejected demands for an increase in the corpus allocated to MPs for development of their constituencies under the Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) scheme to Rs. 5 crore recently. How much does the government provide all Members of Parliament annually to develop their constituencies currently? (A) Rs. 1 crore (B) Rs. 2 crore (C) Rs. (B)5 crore (D) Rs. (C)0 crore

ANS:- (B) 123- Name the country which has announced that it would provide a whopping $(B)29 b as military aid to Pakistan to bolster its army’s anti-terror capabilities, notwithstanding India’s concerns that Islamabad has been diverting portion of such assistance against it. (A) France (B) UK (C) Germany (D) United States

ANS:- (C) 125- Which Indian state attracted the highest number of domestic tourists in 2009, according to data on ‘Indians travelling within India’ unveiled by the market research division of the Union Ministry of Tourism recently? (A) Andhra Pradesh (B) Uttar Pradesh (C) Tamil Nadu (D) Karnataka

ANS:- (A) 126- Which Indian Professor has been named for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) award? (A) ANS:- (A)K. Sidhwani (B) K.L. Supriya (C) Anand Siyasubramaniam (D) None of the above

ANS:- (C) 127- Which of the following became the first Asian country to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) recently? (A) India (B) Japan (C) China (D) South Korea

ANS:- (B) 129- India signed the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC) recently. Which of the following statements about the CSC is/are correct? I. The CSC seeks to establish a uniform global legal regime for the compensation of victims of nuclear accidents II. US is the only permanent member of the UN Security Council to sign and ratify the convention III. The Convention will come Into effect only after ratification by all permanent members of the UNSC (A) I only (B) I and II only (C) II only (D) II and III only

ANS:- (B) 130- Name the French-American mathematician who explored a new class of mathematical shapes known as “fractals” and who died at age 85 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (A) Benoit Mandlebrot (B) Frank Adams (C) Alan Baker (D) William Kingdom Clifford

ANS:- (A) 131- 16th National Youth Festival will be held in (A) Ajmer (B) Udaipur (C) Bikaner (D) Jaipur ANS:- (B) 132- The New and Renewable Energy Minister, Farooq Abdullah said that as many as 10,000 remote villages across the country will be electrified with renewable energy sources by March 2012 Much of the power is slated to come from the first 1,000 megawatts (MW) added to the national grid as part of the (A) Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (B) Rajiv Gandhi National Solar Mission (C) Indira Gandhi National Solar Mission (D) Rashtriya Urja Mission

ANS:- (A) 133- Name the British author who has won the prestigious Booker Prize for his comic novel The Finkler Question. (A) Peter Carey (B) Tom McCarthy (C) Howard Jacobson (D) Ruskin Bond

ANS:- (C) 134- Which of the following statements about the MoU signed between Union HRD Ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) recently is/are correct? (A) Mark sheets and degrees of students will be stored in paperless form (B) Staff from educational institutions will be deputed for enumeration work undertaken by UIDAI (C) Mark sheets and degrees of students will be imprinted with the “Aadhar” number of UIDAI (D) UIDAI will assist in the conduct of a national common entrance test for college admissions

ANS:- (C) 135- How many gold medals were won by India in the Ashiad (2010)? (A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 14 (D) 16

ANS:- (C) 136- Mike Russell cruised to his 10th World professional title in Leeds after defeating India’s Dhruv SitwalAns:- (A) They are associated with (A) Golf (B) Billiards (C) Chess (D) Tennis

ANS:- (B) 137- Who is the author of the book The Bridge-The life and rise of Barack Obama? (A) Maureen Harrison (B) Shelby Steele (C) David Remnick (D) Joseph Vogel

ANS:- (A) 139- Which well known US University was in news for announcing a partnership with IIM, Kozhikode and IIT, Kanpur to develop academic leadership development programs for higher education leaders in India recently? (A) Stanford University (B) Princeton University (C) Harvard University (D) Yale University

ANS:- (D) 140- What is the title of South African opener Herschelle Gibbs’ controversial autobiography? (A) My Cricket Story (B) To The Point (C) New Era of South Africa Cricket (D) None of these

ANS:- (B) 141- The National Advisory Council, chaired by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, submitted its report on the National Food Security Act to the Union government recently. Which of the following statements about its recommendations is/are correct? I. Subsidized food grains should be provided to at least 90% of the country’s population II. The entitled population is to be divided into two groups: ‘Priority’ and ‘General’ households III. The price of food grains supplied to all households covered by the Act should be the same (A) 1 only (B) I and II only (C) II only (D) II and III only

ANS:- (B) 143- Which of the following statements about the IMF reforms announced at the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bankers meeting organized recently, is/are correct? I. BRIC countries–Brazil, Russia India and China–will see a decline in their voting shares II. Europe will see a rise in its share as well as its representation on the IMF board III. After changes in voting shares take effect, India will occupy 8th position (A) I only (B) I and II only (C) III only (D) II and III only

ANS:- (D) 146- VK Shunglu, who heads the two-member high-level committee set up to probe the alleged financial irregularities in the Common Wealth Games (CWG), has been given the status of (A) a High Court Judge (B) a Supreme Court Judge (C) State Minister (D) Cabinet Minister

ANS:- (B) 147- Which department of the government of India is celebrating 150 years of its existence in 2010? (A) Customs and Excise (B) Income tax (C) Planning Commission (D) Panchayati Raj

ANS:- (B) 148- In which of the following countries, Anand Satyanand is the de facto head of state (Constitutional Head)? (A) Trinidad & Tobago (B) Laos (C) New Zealand (D) Kingdom of Tonga

ANS:- (C) 151- What is the new GDP growth rate of the Indian economy in 2010 projected by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its World Economic Outlook report unveiled recently? (A) 6.3% (B) 7.2% (C) 6.5% (D) 9.7%

ANS:- (D) 152- Name the president of Hockey India who resigned from the post to honour her commitment to the Union Sports Minister, Dr. MS Gill, that she would quit after the Commonwealth Games. (A) Girija Vyas (B) Kiran Bedi (C) Vidya Stokes (D) Satvinder Kaur

ANS:- (C) 153- Which former Indian cricketer has been elected the President of Karnataka Cricket Association? (A) Javagal Srinath (B) Anil Kumble (C) Venkatesh Prasad (D) None of the above

ANS:- (B) 154- Which of the following became the first tax haven to sign a Tax Information Exchange Agreement with India that will allow exchange of information on criminal tax matters with the Indian government recently? (A) British Virgin Island (B) Bermuda (C) Bahamas (D) Cayman Islands